Historical Society Meeting!

Susannah Pottenger’s life embodied the course of early American history. Susannah was a descendant of those escaping religious persecution in Europe. Many of these emigrants were willing to become indentured servants for the chance of a better life in Colonial Maryland. Susannah Pottenger was born during the French and Indian War and was raised on a Maryland tobacco farm. She was orphaned in Virginia during the Revolutionary War, survived the dangerous Kentucky frontier, and was widowed very young. Susannah Pottenger-Brown died in Illinois during the Civil War, aged more than 100 years.